Monday, February 13, 2012
TV The Walking Dead Chitty-Chat Club!
Posted by Wm.™ Steven Humphrey on Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 11:24 AM
Welcome back to The Walking Dead Chitty-Chat Club! Did you have a good hibernation during the show's winter break? Glad to hear it. And you'll be happy to know that the show left off right where the last episode ended... when that thing happened. And you know what thing I'm talking about, right? Okay, then! My SPOILER-FILLED thoughts are after the jump... so c'mon, zombies! LET'S GET SHAMBLING!
- Courtesy AMC
- "So two guys walk into a bar, and... oh, wait! Two guys actually ARE walking into the bar! Ha! That's funny."
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Anyway, here's what I'm thinking...
1) This episode is called "Nebraska"—which refers to a possible colony where people are maybe, but probably not, living safely—but C'MON. Nebraska? Blechh! I'll take my chances with the zombies, thankyouverymuch.
2) Naturally everybody flips their shit about Rick gunning down Zombie Sophie: Farmer Vet is mad at the gang, Shane is mad at Farmer Vet, Grandpa Eyebrows is mad at Shane, Rick is mad at himself, Sophie's mom is mad at those flowers, and Rick's kid is the only one who seems to be taking it well. Although he looks super pale right now. Eat some liver and onions, son! You're looking like that dandy fop in Twilight!
3) Anyway, one of those blonde farm girls—I seriously cannot tell them apart—goes into a "spell" and nobody can find Farmer Vet. After finding an empty flask in his room, Shanelock Holmes deduces he must be getting shitfaced in a bar. (????) Naturally Rick—who can't keep his actually big nose out of anyone's business—goes off in pursuit along with Glenn (who needs to get his priorities straight regarding this "love" business). Confidential to Glenn: YOUR GIRLFRIEND IS HOT, BUT SHE'S A NAG. And nags don't suddenly become any less naggy. Think about that, why don't you?
4) Meanwhile, Lori is a FUCKING IDIOT. Two seconds after Rick takes off to find Farmer Vet, anonymous farm girl gets a fever, and Lori is all like, "OMG! WHERE IS RICK AND FARMER VET??? I HAVE TO GO BRING THEM BACK EVEN THOUGH I HAVE NO IDEA WHERE I'M GOING, AND MY ACTIONS WILL ONLY SERVE TO MAKE A BAD SITUATION WORSE!!" I fucking hate Lori.
5) She's a terrible driver, too.
6) So here's a funny joke: Three guys walk into a bar... followed by two guys more guys who walk into a bar. Okay, that's not all that funny. However, the two guys are super sweaty—which is TV language meaning they're dangerous and creepy—and they hint around that they'd just love to hang out at the farm and rape all the women. Wait... did they just say that out loud? Rick does the right thing and blows their fucking brains out. They are from Jersey after all. UNFORTUNATELY, people from Jersey have astonishing hearing, and the gunshots bring the other Jersey creeps running—as well as any zombies in the immediate area. So once again... good job, Rick! (Hey, Glenn. Are you going to just stand there thinking about your naggy girlfriend? Shoot your freaking gun.)
7) So that was an ohhhhh-kay episode, and if they keep up the action perhaps this season won't be a total washout. (Unfortunately, I don't like ANY of the characters right now... so is that a problem?) DID YOU WATCH THIS??? WHAT DID YOU THINK???
- Courtesy AMC
- "I really hate The Jersey Shore!"
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I'm nearly current on the comic, and I'm loving the show more the longer it progresses. It took them a little while (and Frank Darabont causing an hour of footage to be lost) but they're finally hitting their stride. The last two episodes and the pilot were the ones that felt most like the comic. This episode was tone perfect.
Blonde girl--Beth--got bit or scratched I wager by undead mom.
Lori's hit parade continues! I love her to death.
She's a terrible driver, too.
Some fundamental aspects of the universe can't be changed by the world ending.
As soon as the new guys walked into the bar, I had this weird feeling that something was up, and as soon as fat guy started the attitude and Renee from True Blood turned the conversation just ever slightly I knew we'd finally finished crossing over into the proper The Walking Dead story, between this and the midseason finale.
Hope you all are ready for The Road with zombies, because, well, that's what you're getting.
Also: I have it on reliable spoilery authority that the zombiez and violence to bullshit (S'FIAAAAAAA!!! S'FIAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!) ratio is going to balls deep into the zombies and violence side from here on out, like the comic did around this point in the story.
Overall, I liked it, although Lori taking the car was the dumbshittiest dumbshit thing in the history of ever. But Rick shooting those guys was the smartest thing Rick has ever done. Bless his heart.
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* Immediately after the CDC fiasco, the group goes into hiding -- night is falling
* They prepare to leave Atlanta ASAP
* They want to take the Vatos people with them from the hospital
* Meanwhile at the Vatos... the zombies finally find them
* Epic stuff with hundreds of zombie extras
* All hospital people killed and eaten
* Remember the opening season scenes of the zombies eating a dog and fresh kills?
* Yep, Vatos
* Then Rick gets on the radio on a rooftop outside Atlanta, calling Morgan
* That was after they found that the Vatos were all dead
* Episode 2/3 was basically promoted to episode 1 and screwed up production schedule
* Them on the highway was after they fled Atlanta totally
* Money was lost so some other stuff (don't know what) was cut
* It took them till around mid-season to right the ship
* Supposedly this will spin the story off increasingly into new directions more and more
* Comic major story beats/locations will still be hit
* I read way too much about this show during the mid season break
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That said, who's he going to have sex with now?
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You can take the boy out of Georgia...
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